Summary
Kaustab Pal is a Senior Engineer at Qualcomm XR Research with seven years of experience building spatio-temporal models, visual-language model workflows, and optimization-driven auto-annotation algorithms for perception and robotics. His background blends academic research (M.S. by Research in Computer Science with specialization in Robotics) and applied engineering across industry labs including MathWorks, TCS Research, and Qualcomm, plus hands-on robotics work for DRDO and Intel collaborations. He has taught robotics planning and navigation, implemented motion and behavior planners for autonomous driving, and ported safety frameworks like Intel’s RSS into evaluation toolchains. An active contributor in robotics research projects (including a Google Summer of Code implementation of NMPC collision-avoidance ideas), he is comfortable moving ideas from control theory to production prototypes. Based in Bengaluru, he pairs strong theoretical grounding with practical systems-building and a proven ability to bridge research, teaching, and product teams.
7 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
M.S. by Research, Computer Science with specialization in Robotics, M.S. by Research, Computer Science with specialization in Robotics at International Institute of Information Technology
Hindi, Bengali, English